Will Norway and Iceland finally make it into the EU?
By contrast, the three-party left-wing bloc, led by former Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, but also including the Socialist Left and Centre parties, scored 51.1 per cent, enough to give…
Articles, Briefings and Essays
The views expressed in the articles are those of each respective author and do not necessarily reflect the views or position of the Foreign Policy Centre.
Waiting for Europe, Wanting America
Plagued by image problems around the globe, the United States could use some good news. Such an image boost may be forthcoming from an unlikely place — the Balkans. Richard…
Ideals and Identities: what Europe needs to make Europeans
Successive Home Secretaries have found it difficult to define or encourage the notion of ‘British-ness’, even three hundred years after the Union of 1707, when the idea of a ‘Briton’…
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Democracy, Terrorism and the Middle East
In any Middle Eastern state that has pretensions towards democracy Islamist groups are dominating the political field. The most spectacular example was Hamas’ victory with 56 per cent of the…
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Two cheers (or perhaps only one) for Tony Blair
It was a finely judged offer, balancing the minimum acceptable to his European partners, against the maximum which his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, was prepared to concede without…
A new deal for Greenland and the EU?
Yet under the 1985 agreement, it has continued to receive aid approximately equal to what it was getting before from the EU’s regional fund. Last year, the EU contributed around…
Wanted: An EU Human Rights agency which works
Last June the Commission did table a draft Regulation to establish such an agency, but this has been heavily criticised for its minimalist approach, in particular that actions by member…
Europe Isn’t Working: how should it change?
Yet such an analogy is flawed. The Union is not a mechanical institution that sputters but an organic one that is evolving. Viewed in this light the binary perception of…
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Hard luck on Lithuania – Kept out on a technicality?
Formally, these will only be recommendations. The actual decision will be taken some time later by the Council of Ministers, but few expect them to go against findings which are…
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The West must recognise Latin America’s new leaders
The new batch of left-wing governments in Latin America has led some to hail a new dawn for the region, and others to shudder, claiming an era of totalitarianism is…